What is a Gifted Educational Plan (EP)?
A gifted EP is a document that describes the gifted services the student is to receive, the location and frequency of those services, and the goals and objectives (based on student strengths) to be addressed. In addition, it lists information about the student’s current level of performance (e.g., most recent test scores, strengths and interests, academic functioning, and gifted needs) that lead to those goals. The EP also specifies how and how often the parents will be informed of the student’s progress toward meeting the EP goals/objectives. The team that develops the EP consists of one or more parents, a regular education teacher (written input is permitted in the absence of the teacher), a teacher of the gifted, a person qualified to interpret the most recent evaluation results, and a local education authority (a school administrator or designee). Gifted EP’s are written to cover a multi-year period: grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, or 9-12. If the school or the parent feels that the current
